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A Market-street merchant has an office
boy who Is all right as a faithful, honest
little chap, but his home training has been
so good that he is by no means a good
fibber. The other day the merchant said
to the boy:
"Did you tell that awful bore who called
that I had eone to San Francisco?"*
"Yes. sir." said the" boy: "I told him
you started this" morning."
"Good boy! What did he sav?"
"He wished to know when you'd return,
sir and I told him I did not think you
would bo back until after lunch."—Phila
delphia Ledger.
Altogether Too Truthful.
Resolved, That we bow with perfect ¦ubmis
sion to the will of Almighty God; that in thft
death of Mr. English this community as well
as the State of California loses one of Its most
valued citizens; a man of rare ability and in
dustry, ever diligent and painstaking and who
by his courteous, cheerful, considerate • and
kindly manner endeared himself to all with
whom he came in contact
Resolved. That these resolutions be spread in
full on the record of the proceedings of this
board and a copy thereof be engrossed and sent
to the bereaved family of the deceased, to
whom we extend our sincere and heartfelt sym
pathy.
"Whereas, It ha» pleased Dl-rine Provldenc* to
call from our midst, la the day of his u»efal
ness. our beloved friend. "William D. Cnxliah.
a former president and recently •ecretarr
of this Board of State Harbor Commissioners;
therefore be It ' „
The State Board of Harbor Commis
sioners held Its regular meeting 1 yester
day afternoon. Little was done by the
board as nothing pressing has been
brought to the attention of the commis
sioners of late. A set of resolutions ex
pressing deep regret and sorrow at the
death of William D. English.^ former
member of the board, was Introduced by
Commissioner Klrkpatrlck and unani
mously adopted.
The chief engineer was Instructed, by
the board to prepare plans for the repair
of ferry slips 1, 4 and &. The commis
sioners looked over the plans of. the new
bridge to be erected by the Santa Fe
Railway at Third street and approved
of them. The following resolutions were
passed out of sympathy to late Commis
sioner English: .
Harbor Commissioners
Mourn for Former
Associate.
HONOR MEMORY
OF W. D. ENGLISH
"I see by the papers," remarked Mrs.'
Waggles, "that Pike County is so over
run with rattlesnakes that a bounty of a
quarter of a dollar is paid for each skin."
"That looks ; like a rather dangerous
way of making money," commented her
"But , there must be some safe way of
getting the skins.",- . .
"Yes, there is, my dear."
"How's that?"
"Wait until the snake sheds them."—'
New 1 York Times. '
* The Only Way.
Conservatism is believed to be the dis
tinguishing characteristic of Englishmen:
A young^ man ' of Bermuda, of English
descent, , now residing in New York City,
Imports : his collars : from St. George's
Town, on the island where he- was born,
not because he has any prejudice against
American-made : goods,, nor because ' he
can't get* a collar ; to /suit his r needs" in
one of the thousand or more shops where
collars . are sold here, , but simply that he
is used to, the sort that he imports. . "It's
the kind: I've always had, -y* ,know.":he
isays.by way of explanation.— Exchange. :..¦
The Kind He Always Had.
: "I saw the point, and bethought : me of
an : old" inauguration badge I. had with
me, which ; I ; had worn as chairman of
some i committee. I dug; If out of my
trunk and -pinned it on my coat. It was
about .ten inches long and three • broad
and as gaudy and tinseled as a dozen or
ders all; in one. No one knew what ' it
meant, but i it was! a decoration, and as
such \ carried me Jail, over Europe in as
fine style as If It were an ¦ emblem of the
noblest ; order • of the * old .world."—Wash
ington Post. '
"I was traveling abroad," said the re
turned, tourist, "and I noticed that In
the railway carriages, at the stations, in
the hotels and everywhere a certain class
of • travelers were paid every " considera
tion, although they spent no more money
than I did. The railway guard sprang to
open the door for them; the hotel people
gave them the best they had and every
one seemed anxious to do them honor. At
one of the big- hotels S noticed a' number
of these men who had got the best of me
at all times for several days back, and I
consulted the waiter. . , .-
" 'Why is it.' I asked, 'that , this man.
and that man, and the other man are
shown so much courtesy and attention?'
",'Ah!" said the waiter, 'they have been
decorated. One has the Legion of Honor,
the other the Golden Eagle, and that one
the ¦ Order of the Star. All gentlemen
having decorations are given the utmost
consideration/,'
Here is a story that might have come
from Secretary* Hay. Perhaps it was told
him by. the traveler In foreign lands.
SAW THE SITUATION *
AND ACTED UPON IT
ORIENTAL PERFUMES ?
NOW FASHION'S FAD
Quantities Are Being Imported for
the Ultra Set in So
• clety.
The newest of the fashions to be
brought to America are the Oriental per
fumes. These scents and smells of old
Japan are the ultra-fashion for the wo
man who cares for luxury.
Instead of violet she will smell the lotus
flower; Instead of heliotrope it will be
sandal wood; instead of lavender it is to
be ambergris.
The sachet is In Japanese paper, cov
ered with Japanese pictures. The lotus
flower water is an artistic little class
bottle covered with queer seals. Other
sachets are in little fantastic silk bags
tied at each end. The powder comes In
queer liltle books, out of which you tear
a leaf and gently rub It on your face.
The soap is wrapped in all manner of
Japanese characters, stamped on silver
foil and paper.
There may not be as dainty an odor aa
some of the better known productions,
but the queerness of them Is very effec
tive,, and will fro far toward making them
fashionable.— Cincinnati Enquirer
runs for six innings. In the seventh, with two
men on bares. Jubell tied the score with a hit
past first that rolled under - the right-field
blwichers. making it a home run. A single.
White's wild piu-h and an out gave Boston the
pame in the ninth inning. Attendance, 12,730.
Score:
i:,- iv r. h. . e.
Chicago ...a • 9 r 4
Boston „ 4 .9 \
Batteries — Whit* and Slattery; Dineen and
J. Btahl.
CINCINNATI WINS ONE
GAME A2JD LOSES ONE
NATIONAL. LEAGUE.
BOSTON. Auc. 19. — Cincinnati *hut out
the locals in the firrt garAe of a double header
to-day, but hard hitting and some luck turned
the table* in the second. Malark^y wa« hit
hard an<3 oftrn in the earlier rame. The fea
ture of the second tune wag l>onl!n's terrlflc
hit In the r.inth. although «evere lameness pre
vented him, rrotn setting more than two bags.
Attendance, 3000. Score:
R. H. E.
Boston •• 0 6 4
Cincinnati ;. 6 14 1
Batteries — Malarkey and Moran; Hahn and
Swmii rune— R. H. E.
Boston ........•..••..,......••.•.•• 4. 9 1
Cincinnati 3 10 a
Batteries— PUtin^er end Dext$r; Phillip* and
Haberer. Umpire— Johnston*.
BROOKLYN, Au*. 18. — Brooklyn and Chl
' ace. broke even In the double header here to
day, the home team wlnntng the flnst contest
and losing the second. In the flist game the
Chicago fielders gave 'Weimer wretched sup
port. The visitors made five runi In the second
inning of the last pame. but after that Garvln
(v-ttled down. Wicker started In to pitch for
Oilcaro. He was knocked out of the box in
the fifth inning. Taylor relieved him and
Brooklyn's scoring ended. Attendance, 33U0.
Kcore: .-",
Firrt came— R. H. E.
Brooklyn 6 7 2,
Chicago 2 7 6
Batteries — Schmidt and Jacklitscb; Weimer
and Klins.
Second game — R. H. E.
r-hicsijo 6 11 1
Brooklyn 5 8 1
Batteries— Wicker, Taylor and Kling; Garvln
and Hitter. Umpires — Hunst and Moran.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
CLEVELAND. Auj. 10.— Cleveland woa .a
pitchers' battle from 'Washington, each team
makins only five hits. Cleveland scored la th-»
' :i-hth on abate on balls, a eteal'and two long
f!i»*. In the ninth Oochnauer scored on his
?inrle. Moore's sacrtnee and Flick's hit. At-'
tendance. 1400. Score:
£"el«d £ f E 6
"arhiagton 0 5 0
Batteries— Moore and Bernlc; Dur.kle and Klt
-r*cce.
.£,"} C , AGO ' Ao *- 39— Errors, both battery
«d fielding, **ve the vUiton a lead of thre« '
Cordell is undoubtedly Insane. He was
examined as to his sanity two weeks ago,
but not being considered dangerous, was
not committed to an asylum. He was
taken to the County Jail at Los Angeles
to-night and will be sent to the State
Hospital at Patton.
LONG BEACH. Aug. 13.— Laboring un
der the hallucination that'R. M. Lynn,
the Town Marshal, was his worst enemy,
George Cordell, a well known dairyman,
to-day attempted to wipe out the. Lynn
family, and came near killing one of its
members. While delivering milk through
the residence section of the city, Cordell
stopped his team in front of Lynn's res
idence, and drawing a revolver, began fir
ing into the house. He aimed at the doors
and windows, and his bullets went tearing
through the rooms.
Theta iiynn, hearing the shots, ran to
a window and Cordell opened fire on her,
but did not hit her. Several men were
attracted by the shots and at their ap
pearance Cordell covered them with his
revolver and ordered them to keep away.
He had fired ail the cartridges in the
weapon, howevejf. and the men closed in
on him and disarmed him. before he coufd
reload. He gave them a terrible fight, but
was finally overpowered and taken to
Jail.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
The guard was at once turned out to
beat the brush and was later Joined by
the neighboring farmers, who threaten to
lynch the fugitive if they succeed in over
taking him before the soldiers accomplish
his arrest. His escape seems Impossible,
for the island is far separated from the
mainland and all the boat landings are
under close surveillance.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash.. Aug. 19.—
The Island county, comprising Whidby
Island, one of the most fertile farming
eections of Washington, is in a fever of
excitement over a murderous attack made
yesterday morning by a drunken artil
leryman from Fort Casey on the wife or
a prominent farmer. The soldier threat
ened the woman, who is an invalid, with
a razor, and dragged her by the hair to
a secluded epot. where he left her for
dead, after maltreating her. He then re
turned to the post barber shop, and after
removing his mustache to disguise him
self, decamped.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
Fugitive Makes Mur
derous Attack on
Wife of Farmer.
Crazed Dairyman Runs
Amuck on Streets of
Long. Beach.
The remeasurement was made at the
request of Sir Thomas Lipton.— The dif
ference In the measurement was caused
by the lowering of .the throat halyard
block three feet, thus adding to the length
of the topmast and decreasing the sail
area..
Secretary George McCormack was asked
to-night if the measuring was the result
of any dissatisfaction on the part of Sir
Thomas Lipton with the figures obtained
by Mr. Mower.
"Not at all," said Mr. McCormacki
"simply Sir Thomas altered his boat by
lowering the throat halyard block. He
then asked , for a remeasurement and got
It. That's all."
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.-H was an
nounced at the New York Yacht
Club late to-night that C. D.
Mower, the official measurer, had
remeasured Sir Thomas Lipton's chal
lenger, Shamrock III, off Sandy Hook to
day and that as a consequence the chal
lenger will be in receipt of an additional
allowance of twelve seconds In the races,
making a total allowance of one minute
and fifty-seven seconds, against the pre
vious estimate of one minute and forty
five seconds.
The new measurement revealed the fact
that a mistake' had been made in measur
ing the length of the topmast. When
Mr. Mower ran his tape over the vessel
again to-day he found the throat halyard
block was three feet lower than . his
figures of yesterday showed. This made
the length of the topmast greater by
three feet, reducing 1 the size of the main
sail and thus decreasing the sail area.
The new measurement brings the racing
length of the Shamrock III down to 104.4
Instead of 104.77; ecual to a time allow-,
ance of twelve seconds.
"There never was any Jockeying. I do
not consider it an honest way of getting
people to bet their money. Except in a
few cases when Mr. •Fife has wanted to
sail alongside of the Shamrock I we have
always done the best we could, and I have
always wanted to see her do ifer best."
Sir Thomas, added Jokingly: "The Sham
rock III will win the first race by either
six or seven minutes. I'm not quite cer
tain which; the second race by four min
utes and a half. You will have to ask me
about the third race later."
A flood of letters, cablegrams and tele
grams reached the Erin to-day from all
parts of the world, bringing wishes' for
the success of Sir Thomas and the Sham
rock III. One cablegram came from
Images, Portugal, from Lord Charles
Beresford, saying all the officers and men
of the channel fleet sent hearty good
wishes and hoped to hear the Shamrock
III had won by a length. Other.mes
sages came from the Durban Yachting
Club of South Africa; the Yacht Racing
Association of Perth, Western Australia;
the Royal Yacht Squadron of New, Zeal
and, and from nearly every yacht club
In Canada.
Among the notables who will probably
•be guests of Sir Thomas on the Erin dur
ing the races are Adjutant General and
Mrs. Corbin; Paymaster General Bates,
U. 8. A.; Hon. Charles Russell; Captain
Brownson, commander of the Naval Acad
emy; General and Mrs. Chaffee, Mr. and
Mrs. tJohn D. Crimmlns, Mr. and Mrs. T.
A. Edison,' Mrs. Jefferson Davis Hayes
Jr. and Mrs. John A. Flagler, Senator and
Mrs. Kearns of Utah, Governor Odell;
Lady Sweetenham,- wife of the Governor
of the Straits ' Settlement; • Lieutenant
Commander Isani T. Takeshlka of the
Japanese • Navy, former Lieutenant Gov
ernor Woodruff, Commander John C.
Cameron,' captain, of the Oceanic," and
Captain McKlnstrey of the Teutonic. •
In reply to a question whether or not
there was any basis for suspicion that
the challenger had not been permitted to
show all her speed in her trials with the
Shamrock I, Sir Thomas said: • V
. receive the Earl and Countess of
Shaftsbury and others" of Sir" Thomas'
guests from the Oceanic, after which she
returned to Sandy Hook with Sir Thomas
and the party on board and lay there dur
ing 1 the night. C. Oliver Iselin, the man
aging member of the Reliance syndicate,
and his advisers passed the night on
board the Reliance's tender, Sunbeam, at
anchor near the Reliance.
When asked for a prophecy of the result
of to-morrow's race. Sir Thomas said:
"I am more- confident of winning than
ever. My confidence is shared by every
man on the fleet and other admirers of
the Shamrock III. Designer Fife is sat
isfied with the tuning up that the Sham
rock III has received and Captain Wringe
is confident." ...
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.— Sir Thomas
Lipton's steam yacht Erin came
up the harbor this afternoon to
EMPTIES PISTOL
AT YOUNG GIRL
MOB IN PURSUIT
OF ARTILLERYMAN
Shamrock Ill's Time
Allowance Is In- \
creased.
Sir ' Thomas Will En
tertain Numerous
Guests.
In neither of his previous attempts to
carry off the precious "mug" did Sir
Thomas sail . on a challenger. To-night
he was in doubt whether to sail in the
challenger to-morrow. His friends on the
Erin urged him not to do so for fear of
an accident. According to the rules the
first race will be fifteen nautical miles to
windward or leeward and return, depend
ing upon the direction of the wind. After
that . each alternate race will be over a
triangular course, ten miles to the leg.
The next race will be sailed on Saturday
and the. third next Tuesday and thereaft
er every other day until the series Is com
pleted. The winner of three out of five
will be the victor. According to the
rules if the course is not covered within
the time allowance, five and a half
hours, it is do race.
The weather prediction for to-morrow
is not alluring, the forecaster promising
a breeze of from three to nine knots. A
seven-knot breeze will be necessary to
carry the boats over the course in the al
lotted time. For the first time the chal
lenger and defender to-day sailed in'com
pany off Sandy Hook, when both boats
were taken out for final trial ppins. Some
observers thought the Shamrock III
heeled a little more and seemed to carry a
larger stern wave,
The, Reliance was, first to get away from
her mooring within the Horseshoe and
passed out by the point of the Hook at
10 a. m. There was a fine ten-knot' breeze
from the .¦ south-southeast and, sailing
close hauled, she went out through the
main' ship channel and Georges channel
to the* Sandy Hook lightship, about eight
miles, at a fast pace.
Shamrock III left Sandy Hook fifteen
minutes later and 1 , followed the defender
out through the channel to the lightship.
Both yachts carried lower sails' and club
topsails. The Reliance turned" at the
lightship and ran back toward the chan
nel, meeting the Shamrock III on the
way out. The two - yachts passed / each
other at a distance of a mile. Shamrock
III proceeded as far as the lightship, hove
to and waited the arrival of the Oceanic,
bound in, and then followed the big liner
in under mainsail a/id Jib. ; ;
The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury,
the, latter of whom was sponsor for the
Shamrock HI at her launching, were on
board the Oceanic, and as the big steamer
passed the crew of the Shamrock cheered
the Countess. Both of the yachts re
turned to their moorings at Sandy Hook
after having been absent an hour and' a
quarter, the Reliance reaching hers about
fifteen minutes- in, advance of the Sham
rock. For the: remainder of the day b»th
boats swung at their moorings, while the
crew overhauled their, sails and got every
thing in readiness for the race..
Like greyhounds in leash, the big racers
are moored to-night inside Sandy Hook
ready for the fray to-morrow. Both were
given their final trial spins to-day. De
spite the big time allowance the defender
must concede to the challenger, the
friends of the Reliance are extremely con
fident that Sir Thomas is again doomed
to defeat. The confidence in the Ameri
can boat is reflected in the betting, where
the odds are 2 to 1 on the Reliance. The
friends of the British boat, on the other
hand, profess the greatest faith in the
ability of Fife"s latest creation to "lift
the cup." *
which ever witnessed an International
cup race will go out to witness the initial
race for the blue ribbon of the sea. *As
in the two preceding series, the Govern
ment-will police the course with revenue
cutters and the most stringent rules will
be laid down to prevent interference by
the excursion fleet with the big single
stickers.
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N. J., Aug. 19. — Sir Thomas Lipton came down on the Erin
to-day. He said late this evening : "I feel more sure of beating them than I did last night.
I believe we will win without the necessity of our time allowance. I feel confident that to
morrow Shamrock III will mark the first step toward lifting the cup."
Sir Thomas said he had received cablegrams of hope that he would "lift the cup" from Ad
miral Lord Charles Beresford and Vice Admiral and commanding officers of the Channel squad
ron at Lagos, from the Natal Yacht Club at Durban, from the Royal Yacht • squadron in New
Zealand and from the Yacht Racing Association of Europe.
SIR THOMAS LIPTON CONFIDENT OF LIFTING THE CUP.
PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 19. — Float
quartz, containing an ounce each of gold
and silver, besides copper in paying quan
tities, has : been discovered In Marquam
Gulch, a canyon In the southern part of
the city. The 'find was made by laborers,
who were plowing potatoes' on ground
owned by Judge Marquam.
Mrs. Carrie Elwert passed over the field
and "_ noticed * some ' shining particles of
metal, which she took to J. H. Fisk, an
assayer. .. The assayer declares that the
Special Dispatch to The Call.
Portland Laborers Un
cover Deposit of .
Quartz.
GOLD DISCOVERY
WITHIN THE CITY
/ Before , the .. frigntened Mrs. Heinlck
could stop her the desperate woman fled
through the' front door and out on the
street. Her husband was merrily playing
a fiddle * in - the adjoining barroom and
when informed of what had happened he
rushed after his wife.
I He overtook her as she made a vain at
tempt to climb the stairs of their home
and caught her in his arms. The dying
¦woman 'made an attempt to speak, but
she could .not. and with a last shudder
she fell ' dead in her husband's arms.
% ¦ -• ¦
Late last night she entered the saloon
and grocery "conducted by Fred Heinlck
at 1133 Filbert street and met the wife
of the proprietor of the place in the front
part of the store. The pair stood talking
for a few moments, when suddenly Mrs.
Musgrif pulled out a bottle of carbolic
add and drained its contents. ,
Mrs. Musgrlf was 64 years of age -and
resided with her husband at 1119*4 Filbert
street. 'The home life of the couple was
unhappy, as It la said that the wife was
a victim- of -the llauor habit and every
time her' husband' chlded her a quarrel
was euro i to result. The woman had
threatened to "end h«r life" many times,
but 'no attention was paid to her threats.
While M. Musgrif was playing a popu
lar air on a fiddle In the barroom of a
North Beach saloon last night his wife
suddenly entered the place and. after say
ing a few words of farewell to a friend,
produced ' a - bottle of carbolic acid and
drained its contents. Then the unfortu
nate woman rushed to her home in the
vicinity. She was overtaken by her hus
band, who had heard of tier rash act, and
died in* his arms in the hallway of their
home. ' "
Wife Takes Poison After
x Bidding Farewell to
a Friend.
DIES IN ARMS
OF HER HUSBAND
••¦ ¦ • ¦ ¦ . • .
THE SAN FBANCISCO CAIjL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20. 1903.
FLEET YACHTS READY FOR CUP RACES
RIVAL YACHTS WHICH MEET
TO-DAY IN FIRST OF INTER
NATIONAL CONTESTS. .
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N. J., Aug. 19.— "Nat" Herreshoff said enthusiastically to
night : "We have here the best boat ever anchored inside of the Horseshoe to defend the
America's cup. I feel confident of her performance to-morrow."
Captain "Charlie" Barr said: "Win? Of course, we will win. Why, you can't find any
Shamrock money around anywhere."
On board the Sunbeam, in the absence of, Mr. Iselin, who did not return from his home at
New Rochelle until late to-night, there was no one who would express an opinion. When pressed
one of the party said : j "You surely cannot expect us to speculate on to-morrow's result- It is
YANKEE TARS EXPRESS GREAT FAITH IN THE RELIANCE.
concentrates should yield $300 to the ton.
The ground upon which the quartz was
discovered Is within half an hour's ride
of the postofflce and still nearer the city.
It is a mile within the city limit*. The
gulch has been dwelt upon and cultivated
a number of times, but the discovery
came as a complete surprise.
Assayer Flsk, who has had experience
In Oregon mines, believes that the mother
lode, from which the floating quartz came,
can be found easily, and. If so, a fortune
is awaiting some one.
The hills which Marquam Gulch drain
are of the same formation as the Cas
cades and Flsk believes that in the moun
tains a heavy lode will be found. Work
will shortly be begun on a shaft.
When the office seeks the man it usually
finds the path blazed so there will be no
excuse for its getting: on the wrong trail.
5
First of ythe, In
'..;.¦ ternational
Reliance Made a
One to Two
N ; • EW YORK, Aug. 19.— Over the
ocean race course outside San
dy Hook Sir Thomas Upton's
third challenger, the Shamrock
I III, /will try conclusions to
'"*' ¦ morrow with the new cup de
fender of. the America's cup, the Reliance.
It Is expected one of the largest crowds